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@stillgray Looking forward to the day that Canadians can call him our Prime Minister & we can move on from the disastrous Trudeau years 🇨🇦👍🏻

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I went on Tinder in Medellin, no wonder dudes risk death to date the local ladies 😂🇨🇴🥰💀

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Medellin is like Pattaya & Phuket now but instead of aggressive, drunken Aussie Bogans or British Chavs the City of Eternal Spring has hood type dudes from US cities. I’ve had run-ins with all of the above, one guy at a pub near Parque Lleras was openly doing doing key bumps of

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Pro travel tip: Skip Medellin if interested in dating & partying

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8 years ago my parents came down to Colombia to visit me-they absolutely loved it, especially the Coffee Zone! 🇨🇴 My dad couldn’t believe that chicken wings were served with gloves, he thought it was a genius idea. He also really enjoyed empanadas & cheap beer 🍺 After their ten

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@FischerKing64 I lost mine at 16 on a soccer field in Normandy, France to a fellow exchange student from Finland, it was the summer of 99’. There were 50 girls & 5 dudes from abroad there so ratios were in our favour & buying booze wasn’t a problem 🇫🇷 ❤️ 🇫🇮 🥰

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Unless you go on Tinder dates in Medellin, then you may suffer 😳🇨🇴😂

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@KnoxEndemic Been lifting since the mid-90s, never heard of someone not counting the bar 🤷‍♂️

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@sammydelanoche Haha nice one amigo! I had a year’s worth of used syringes & got them replaced by a mobile needle exchange clinic in Vancouver, a guy in a van came to my door & replaced them for free 😎💉

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@eduardomenoni Adios maestra loca 🤪 👋🏻

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HOW I MAKE OVER SIX FIGURES IN 6 MONTHS as a tradesman in western 🇨🇦 & spend half the year travelling in LatAm With the boomers retiring there’s a labour shortage & a skills had leading to a competency crisis, I see it every day when desperate employers hire anyone with a pulse

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I took this photo from my friend’s balcony in Poblado, Medellín 🇨🇴. It’s a cow pasture in the middle of one of the hottest real estate markets in South America-apparently the land owner doesn’t want to sell to condo developers 😎

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GRINGOS AFUERA!!! 🤬🇨🇴😂

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Down here during carnival the locals paint themselves black, Justin Trudeau would love this place! 😂🇨🇴

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@eduardomenoni Parece un estudiante de “Muy Thai” 👊🏻

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Some Canadian dude decided to open a Dollarama down here and called it Dollarcity now they’re everywhere & are very popular among the locals 🇨🇦$🇨🇴😁

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@CraigBaird “Keep fit & have fun” is one of the slogans that I remember from 80s 😁

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Three US tourists found dead in Medellin 🇨🇴 in the past week. The city has recently seen a tremendous increase in foreign tourism & attracts people who like to party (it’s a great city for that BTW) but folks have to realize that it’s not Thailand or even Cancun-it’s a big city

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@TrashRadio_ Edmonton has gone to shit, I rented my condo out on July 1st and am now staying in a smaller city. A couple of weeks ago a guy and a girl decided to go on a drive-by shooting spree, they shot at 5 random cars, two of these shootings happened on my street 😬

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Colombia is the only country in South America that has coastline on the Pacific & Atlantic (Caribbean), these are my two favourite beaches from each coast: Cabo San Juan in Tayrona national park & Playa Almejal in El Choco, neither are easily accessible 🏝️ 🇨🇴😎

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@yegwave I think this is great, nobody stomping anyone’s heads, no shootings or stabbings-just fists, as it should be 😁👍🏻🇨🇦

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Today I’m flying from Medellin to the remote pacific coast jungle town of Bahia Solano in the El Chocó department of Colombia where I’ll be staying in a beach hut & doing some fishing, hiking & surfing for a few days. The region is only accessible by plane or boat, is very

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@maps_black Por eso hay tantos bands de ladrones Chilenos bien organizados que roban en eeuu, Canadá y el UK 😎

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@Steve_Sailer The cities are becoming increasingly unliveable. I recently left Edmonton after an import from Somalia decided to go on a drive-by shooting spree that left five random, innocent people injured. Two of the shootings took place on my street 😬

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How to get your ass kidnapped & robbed in Colombia. Keep a low profile amigos 🇨🇴😳😆

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@AnnRolle_ @andrewaperez Tent cities Violent criminals out on bail Opioid/meth crisis Reduced sentencing for “radicalized” Criminals Strip mall college diploma-mill PR scam & exploitations of Asian students South Asian truckers with fake licenses killing people in serious accidents Chinese buying

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24 tunas todays off of the pacific coast of Colombia 😎🇨🇴🎣🤟🏻🐟

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@BrowningMachine @Cernovich Refinery worker here-the labour shortage and skills gap are legit, boomers retired en mass during covid and the industry hasn’t done much to attract young workers. Foreign labour helps but they’re a mixed bag

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Working on oil rigs isn’t for everyone, I guess he was a “rig spy” after all 🤣🇨🇦🤘🏻

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I received a job offer that I’m seriously considering although $60/hour is a bit low & the truck is an F-150. They agreed to let me travel to South America for a couple of months in the winter which is nice 😎 I’m gonna make a counter offer & demand $70/hour, a lifted Ford

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One of the highest paying jobs “on the tools” is that of a pipeline RIG WELDER who owns & operates his own welding rig (truck) 🤑 $200-300,000 is not uncommon in places like Texas & Alberta 🇺🇸🇨🇦They’re self employed contractors & some of the craziest, wildest dudes I’ve ever

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@wanderinggene_ Así es amigo ☕️ 🇨🇴👍🏻

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I’m considering selling my condo in Edmonton 🇨🇦 & buying farm land in Boyacá 🇨🇴 I will do this with my amigo Jorge who, like me, works half the year in Canada & spends the other half in Colombia 😎 He and his family are potato farmers who also have dairy cows on their land

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GETTING ROBBED AT KNIFE POINT SUCKS! I’ll write more about this tomorrow but my buddy & I got jacked up by two fuckers on a moto, they didn’t get shit though. I’m gonna go see if I can get security footage tomorrow 😬🔪🤪

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@Iberianamerica Si, vale la pena 🥰

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I can now confirm that there is a “Canadian Line” specifically for us Canucks to pay an entry fee at customs which is 245.000 pesos, about $85 CAD, an agent will come to you in the line with a machine to pay by credit card 🇨🇴🇨🇦 Good to be back in 🇨🇴😁🤘🏻

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It’s never a bad idea to buy your doorman a meal every few days, they appreciate it & their job is to ensure your security so little gestures can go a long way, especially if you’re stumbling into your hotel or apartment late at night 😁🇨🇴

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I took the LRT train to downtown Medellin 🇨🇴 & didn’t see anyone losing their minds, smoking fent/meth or taking a dysentery dump on the tracks, it’s too bad we can’t have nice things like this back home 😆🇨🇦

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Colombia has a large Arab population particularly in Barranquilla where the Arab-Colombian artist Shakira comes from. They often call them Turcos here because when migrants arrived from the Middle East on ships over a century ago, their papers were issued by the Ottoman Empire

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@Martyupnorth_2 Majority of forest fires from last year found to be caused by human activity, many being arson 🔥 👍🏻🇨🇦

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@EmmaRincon @JustinTrudeau Prefiero el sistema dé algunos estados de 🇺🇸-sí alguien esta intentando de robar su vehículo en su propiedad, sacar tu arma y matarlo de una vez, las balas son económicas y este gente no merecen vivir en un país civilizado

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By the end of this year I’ll have spent about ten months in hotels in both Canada & Colombia and one thing that I’m sure of is that the $50 hotels down here offer much better breakfasts than the $150 hotels in 🇨🇦😆🇨🇴👍🏻

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Just ate a bunch of “the world’s worst food” according to LatAm Twitter 🇨🇴😂😛🐟

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I’ve been back in 🇨🇦 for nearly a month and no random women have called me “my love, my heart or my sky” LAME! Amigos, I kinda miss hearing terms of endearment from total strangers on a daily basis 😂🇨🇴🥰

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@TheManlet_King This is why I belong to a labour union

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@eduardomenoni UNO MENOS

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Note to self: stay in South America until May next year 🥶🇨🇦😬

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Another gringo died in Medellín🇨🇴 this time it was a retired cop, aged 65 from the 🇺🇸 That’s sixteen non-migrant foreigners who’ve died in the city so far this year 😳 Police aren’t ruling out suicide in this case but it seems that many of these deaths have common themes:

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I’m no longer near the ocean so instead of smashing seafood chowders I’m crushing fat steaks, tasty trout & delicious coffee in the Colombian Zona Cafetera 🇨🇴 ☕️ 🥩 🐟 😎

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I went on a day tour in Corinto, rural Cauca 🇨🇴 A month later the guide was kidnapped & murdered by FARC dissidents 😬

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Back in Nova Scotia, straight from the airport to my hometown pub with friends. I’m having east coast seafood chowder for the first time in three years, it’s great to be home again 🎣🇨🇦😁🍺

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“It’s not about the money man, it’s about the principle” 🤬😤 Said the dumbass Gringo after nearly getting into a fistfight with a taxi driver over $1 Me: Those principles are gonna get your ass kicked down here bud, just pay the Gringo tax & we all do at some point 😂🇨🇴

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Good times in the coffee zone with a friend from Cali 🇨🇴😎🐎

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I had a couple of drinks at a bar in Medellin & noticed that the tip was a bit high. Tipping isn’t customary in 🇨🇴 but at some places they’ll ask to include it & it’s generally 10% which I have no problems paying for good service. For some reason, probably because I’m a gringo,

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Guys often ask me how I’m able to work seasonally & spend the winters in Latin America. I do it by working turnarounds in refineries, pulp mills, power plants, etc. I usually work from April until October then once it starts snowing, I get going ❄️🇨🇦✈️🇨🇴 So what’s a turnaround

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I’m going out with a Colombiana in Edmonton tonight 🇨🇦🥰🇨🇴 Stopped by the Tienda Latina to pick up a snack & a couple of gaseosas, Colombians love this stuff🥤😍 Def getting some action tonight amigos 😛🤘🏻

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Showed up at the job site, the client provided cheap coffee & powder creamer so I bought my own beans & a French press Life is too short to drink crappy coffee ☕️ 😎

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Early morning strolls in Bogota on a sunny day are always pleasant, traffic isn’t too heavy and the temperature is at a cool 15 degrees-sweater and pants weather. 😎🇨🇴 At 6am I started at Parque Lourdes and walked along Cr 11 up to Parque 93, a distance of 3.5 kms, the sidewalks

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When I go to a club in 🇨🇴 I wanna hear GUAYACAN not GUCCI MANE 😂

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@Kathleen_Wynne Just because milllions of people from mostly 3rd world countries want to move here doesn’t mean that the country is doing well, let’s set the bar higher eh? 🇨🇦😆

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@Martyupnorth_2 @ksamgnet1 I recently got this book in the mail, it should be an interesting read 🤓🇨🇦

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@InvisiblesMuros I only drink black coffee in 🇨🇴 because they don’t allow customers to pour their own cream, don’t have automatic dispensers & asking “solo un poquito de leche por fa” often gets you half & half 😂

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Are you an adrenaline junky who wants to make $100K+ per year & spend winters in warm places? Then you should consider a career as a rope access technician, here’s how you do it: -Take the 6 day level 1 IRATA course ($1500-2000) -Move to a city with

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I got a job offer for a job at a welding shop where they fabricate parts for the nuclear industry, which is booming in Ontario BTW There’s lots work in Ontario at the nuke plants these days, the work is very clean & well paid-my friends who’ve worked there get flown in from all

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I love how copyright infringement isn’t really a big deal down here 😂

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One cool thing about learning Spanish is that you’ll get invited to random house parties. I met these chicas on the beach in Coveñas, next thing I new I was dancing salsa with grandma 😂🇨🇴😎

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Colombia is a wild place because one day you can be launching baby turtles into the ocean thinking you’re saving the world & the next day a lady rolls up to you on the beach selling smoked turtle meat out of a wheelbarrow 🤪🐢🇨🇴🤟🏻

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This is a video from the beer gardens at the feria de Cali 🇨🇴 I kinda wish I was at a beer garden in Colombia instead of working night shifts at an oil refinery in Saskatchewan 🇨🇦😆

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@ryangerritsen Our per capita emissions went up in recent years unlike in the US where they don’t have a carbon tax &their emissions went down 😆🇨🇦

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Many of you have heard of the PASSPORT BRO scene in Medellín 🇨🇴 But have you heard that “The City of Eternal Spring” is also a destination for Latina PASSPORT HEAUX looking to bag a Gringo? 😳🥰 A Latina (non-Colombian) I met in 🇨🇦 years ago is going to party in Medellin with

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Is Colombia Dangerous? Yes 🇨🇴 Has most of my family & several friends visited me there, had amazing vacations & want to return? Also yes 🇨🇴😎 I recommend Colombia to everyone & try to keep my posts positive but I also post about gringo deaths, particularly those which occur

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More tuna! We caught another 22 today for a total of 46 in two days, all on hand lines-no rod or reel, fishing off of the pacific coast of Colombia is a lot of fun 🎣😎🇨🇴

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I was waiting to board my plane yesterday when a pack of gringo 20-somethings sat near me & all I heard was “LIKE” I WAS LIKE, HE WAS LIKE, SHE WAS LIKE, LIKE LIKE LIKE I couldn’t dig my headphones out of my bag quick enough to drown out their conversation. Sometimes after

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8 US tourists dead in two months 💀🇺🇸😳 The “cartel” aren’t masked dudes that’ll kidnap you, they’re pretty girls on Tinder who will drug you & rob you blind Guys if it’s your first time in 🇨🇴 especially if you don’t speak Spanish then be very careful on dating apps down here.

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Colombian mobile welder 🧑‍🏭🇨🇴 I took this photo in Bogota a couple of years ago, the guy does residential welding ⚡️

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@therealmrbench Sharp as a marble she is 🤪

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@stillgray This is on the highway about halfway between Calgary & Edmonton-you’ll see similar signs all over 🇨🇦 in small towns

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Hanging out in tropical South America 🇨🇴 every winter for a few months is fun & all but I kinda miss working & hanging out with my pipefitter & boilermaker friends. I’ll be returning to Alberta in early April then heading to Saskatchewan where I’ll be working on some large oil

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Me: “I’m gonna cut down on the boozing” Promo chicas with bottles of booze: “Hola Gringo, want a shot?” Me: “Siiiii” 🥃🥃🥃🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🤪🤪🤪

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Today I went to see the recently unveiled statue of Shakira & the Window to the World monument in Barranquilla 🇨🇴😁💃 Almost died of heatstroke but it was worth it 🥵🔥

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Good day on the water here on the pacific coast of Colombia 🎣🇨🇴😎

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Santa Marta sunset 🌅🇨🇴 This city has improved a lot since I first visited in 2012, I come here every year as it’s one of my favourite places on the Caribbean coast 😎👍🏻

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@chrisboettcher9 I’m reading this as I drink my morning coffee ten minutes after I woke up ☕️ 😆

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Fine dining Medellin-street meat under an overpass 🇨🇴🥩😛

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I’ve heard of some wild names in LatAm but this family takes the cake 🤯😂🇵🇪

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@monitoringbias This is an excellent book on the subject, a real eye opener, difficult to find though

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Yesterday I visited a couple of my gringo bros in the El Poblado barrio of Medellin, it’s a very nice area and the views are great, especially from their penthouse patios 😎🇨🇴

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I was caught speeding on site so they took my truck away & now I have to ride around the refinery on this trike 😆🚲

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